Dinner Guests
21 December 2015
Soon after we returned from Europe, we were asked to help at the rowing club trivia night. The opening performance was somewhat more involved than usual and Jay and I were in the role of bridesmaids. Our part in the performance was mercifully short and we were able to return to our table of friends. Our team came in the top five for the event. It was the club’s best fund-raiser yet.
Last year Jay missed the AFL Grand Final as he was sent to California for work. This year he was able to come. It was a spectacle, but not a particularly good game: very one-sided. Bryan Adams was part of the pre-game entertainment, so they were doing their best to make a Canadian feel at home.
The next day I received the news that Robert had died suddenly in London. Though we had separated more than ten years ago and I had not had contact with him for quite some time it was a shock that this should happen when he was only 46.
Jay’s parents were due to stay with us in October and November, so we finally got around to having air conditioning installed in the guest bedroom. That meant that before the end of the year I could cross one thing off my list of things that need to be fixed in the house.
The Australian Synchrotron held its open day in October and despite being on call for St Vincent’s, I had enough free time to go with Jay to do a tour. At the time we thought we might not get another chance as the anti-science Commonwealth Government had reduced its funding, despite it being the only such facility in the country. Fortunately following the change of Prime Minister this decision was reversed.
Every second year I have attended the American Society of Anesthesiologists Annual Meeting. This year it was in San Diego in October. I flew with Qantas to Los Angeles and then drove to San Diego. The conference was particularly good this time. I also had a chance to see some friends in San Diego and Los Angeles before coming home. I stayed at the Hilton Bayfront which is right at the water’s edge. This was a little anxiety-provoking as I arrived to news that the largest storm ever seen in the Eastern Pacific was approaching the coast, but fortunately it missed San Diego completely.
Jay’s parents arrived the day after I returned from California. They were in Australia for three weeks. We sent them to Uluru as a birthday gift.
opportunity to show them the progress which had been made on the house he is renovating.
Our new dining table and chairs had arrived in July, so Jay was full of enthusiasm to make good use of them. He cooked a Thankgiving dinner for friends at American Thanksgiving and then a pre-Christmas dinner party for twelve. Both times he did roast turkey which was well-received.
Our guests did well to eat a roast dinner on a 42 degree day: a quintessentially Australian Christmas experience. The airconditioner definitely helped.
After Christmas we are visiting Beau and Simon in Sydney for New Year’s Eve. We plan to watch the fireworks from the Opera House and then go out with them the following day.
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Last year Jay missed the AFL Grand Final as he was sent to California for work. This year he was able to come. It was a spectacle, but not a particularly good game: very one-sided. Bryan Adams was part of the pre-game entertainment, so they were doing their best to make a Canadian feel at home.
The next day I received the news that Robert had died suddenly in London. Though we had separated more than ten years ago and I had not had contact with him for quite some time it was a shock that this should happen when he was only 46.
Jay’s parents were due to stay with us in October and November, so we finally got around to having air conditioning installed in the guest bedroom. That meant that before the end of the year I could cross one thing off my list of things that need to be fixed in the house.
The Australian Synchrotron held its open day in October and despite being on call for St Vincent’s, I had enough free time to go with Jay to do a tour. At the time we thought we might not get another chance as the anti-science Commonwealth Government had reduced its funding, despite it being the only such facility in the country. Fortunately following the change of Prime Minister this decision was reversed.
Every second year I have attended the American Society of Anesthesiologists Annual Meeting. This year it was in San Diego in October. I flew with Qantas to Los Angeles and then drove to San Diego. The conference was particularly good this time. I also had a chance to see some friends in San Diego and Los Angeles before coming home. I stayed at the Hilton Bayfront which is right at the water’s edge. This was a little anxiety-provoking as I arrived to news that the largest storm ever seen in the Eastern Pacific was approaching the coast, but fortunately it missed San Diego completely.
Jay’s parents arrived the day after I returned from California. They were in Australia for three weeks. We sent them to Uluru as a birthday gift.
opportunity to show them the progress which had been made on the house he is renovating.
Our new dining table and chairs had arrived in July, so Jay was full of enthusiasm to make good use of them. He cooked a Thankgiving dinner for friends at American Thanksgiving and then a pre-Christmas dinner party for twelve. Both times he did roast turkey which was well-received.
Our guests did well to eat a roast dinner on a 42 degree day: a quintessentially Australian Christmas experience. The airconditioner definitely helped.
After Christmas we are visiting Beau and Simon in Sydney for New Year’s Eve. We plan to watch the fireworks from the Opera House and then go out with them the following day.
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